Freeview and Freesat operator Digital UK has appointed Samsung’s Deep Halder to the newly-created role of Chief Commercial Officer, as well as making a number of other senior staff changes. Halder is currently part of Samsung’s UK & Ireland TV leadership team. At Digital UK, he will lead the development of the organisation’s commercial and […]
NHK World-Japan has launched in the UK on Freeview channel 271 via the Channelbox platform. NHK World-Japan, the international English-language channel from Japan’s public broadcaster NHK, delivers the latest information about Japan and Asia. This channel reaches over 380 million households in 160 countries and regions via local satellite and cable TV providers. NHK World-Japan […]
Classic TV channel That’s TV has announced that it will show the long-running sitcom, Till Death Us Do Part, including four episodes which have not been seen on British TV for over 50 years. Till Death Us Do Part and its successor, In Sickness and In Health, ran for four decades on BBC One with […]
Seasonal channel, GREAT! movies christmas, will return on September 8th in the UK. The 24-hour, free-to-air channel will offer a schedule of non-stop festive films, channel premieres, Hallmark classics and more. Viewers will be able to indulge in feast of TV treats via Freeview channel 52, Sky channel 319, Virgin channel 424 and Freesat channel […]
Spin Master Entertainment’s Mighty Express will arrive on UK free-to-air TV channel Tiny Pop on September 1st, Viewers will be welcomed to Tracksville, where in a playful, quirky world crisscrossed by railway tracks, a team of trains and their kid best-buddies keep things moving and get the delivery through no matter what – one thrilling […]
Free TV operator Digital UK has appointed Sarah Milton and Carl Pfeiffer into the newly-created role of Chief Product Officer, on a job-share basis. Together, they will lead product development for the UK’s leading free-to-view platforms, Freeview and Freesat, as well as manage the day-to-day running of TV services. Prior to joining Digital UK as […]
Channelbox has launched three Bollywood channels including Bollywood HD, Bollywood Classic and music channel Balle Balle. The new channels join other broadcasts from India such as Hindi language news channel Times Navbharat and music and entertainment channel Zoom, both part of the Times Now group. “There are over a million expats from India living in […]
Bloomberg and Bloomberg Quicktake have launched on Freeview channel 271 via the Channelbox platform. The Bloomberg channel delivers business and markets news, data, analysis, and video to the world, featuring stories from Businessweek and Bloomberg News. Originated in 2017 as the first social-only news platform, Bloomberg Quicktake launched as a global, 24/7 video business network in November […]
Current Time, a Russian-language 24/7 TV channel broadcasting from Prague, has launched on Freeview UK via the Channelbox platform. Current Time is a Russian-language TV channel headquartered in Prague and produced by Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) in cooperation with Voice of America. The channel was established as an alternative to Kremlin-controlled media and brings […]
Digital UK, the organisation behind Freeview and Freesat, has appointed Orpheus Warr as its Chief Technology Officer. Reporting to CEO Jonathan Thompson, the newly-created role will see Warr take on responsibility for shaping and delivering the technology strategy for the UK’s leading free-to-view platforms. Warr was formerly Channel 4’s Chief Technology Officer where he was […]